Quote #57
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
More from Immanuel Kant
- It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
- Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
- Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way correspon…
- Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
- In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
- Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
- Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
- Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.